>I'm not arguing for pure functional systems (which I can see going very poorly with relational databases). Why? The very best "OO" interactions I have with a

>I'm not arguing for pure functional systems (which I can see going very poorly with relational databases). Why? The very best "OO" interactions I have with a database are via Linq which is a monad [1]. What it actually does is simply build the plan for what to do in the database and actually do the query at the last possible opportunity. Exactly how it would work in a purely functional setting. [1 ]https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/wiki/Thinking-Functionally:-What-is-LINQ-really%3F https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/wiki/Thinking-Functio...